“It was terrible, just the way she went out, with the smoke,” daughter Chinatta Jones said at a wake for 91-year-old Ethel Davis in Far Rockaway.

Jones, 67, of Danville, Va., blamed the NYPD sergeant who moved Davis out of her fire-safe apartment in Rockaway Beach during the Jan. 12 blaze but set her down in the hall because her 160-pound frame was too heavy to carry out of the building.

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“He should have left her where she was at,” Jones said. “It was a bad move, because she would have been alive right today.”

The IAB has now joined the Queens borough command in investigating why Sgt. Timothy Brovakos didn’t leave Davis in her apartment, said the Davis family’s lawyer, Peter S. Thomas.

Davis’ daughter Marcia, who lived with the mother of six and great-great-grandmother of 16, said she begged the sergeant to leave Davis behind the apartment’s fireproof door as the blaze burned a floor below.

Marcia told The Post that they waited 10 minutes as smoke poured into the hall. The sergeant, himself injured from smoke inhalation, returned with help to rescue Davis, who was overcome by the fumes and died the next day.